 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 966 sider
...come ! " LVI. TRUE WOMAN— I. HERSELF To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily Ijeauty more acceptable Than the wild rose-tree's arch that...That is the flower of life : — how strange a thing ! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret ! Heaven's own screen Hides her... | |
 | Thomas Robert Smith - 1927 - 812 sider
...next the heart that trembled for its sake Lies the queen-heart in sovereign overthrow. LVl HERSELF To be a sweetness more desired than Spring; A bodily...'neath one soft bosom's swell That is the flower of life:—how strange a thing! Hides her soul's purest depth and loveliest glow; Closely withheld, as... | |
 | Houston Peterson - 1929 - 492 sider
...their faces yearned: — "I am your child: O parents, ye have come !" LVII TRUE WOMAN — I. HERSELF To be a sweetness more desired than Spring; A bodily...That is the flower of life: — how strange a thing ! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret ! Heaven's own screen Hides her... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page, Stith Thompson - 1929 - 1078 sider
...their faces yearned : — "I am your child : O parents, ye have come!" LVI. TRUE WOMAN — I. HERSELF an, Veiling beneath that radiant form of Woman All...the eternal Curse ! Veiled Glory of this lamplcss How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret ! Heaven's own screen Hides her... | |
 | Frederick Erastus Pierce - 1929 - 578 sider
...wood's counterpart, Sheds doubled darkness up the laboring hill. LVI. TRUE WOMAN — I. HERSELF (1881) To be a sweetness more desired than Spring ; A bodily...environing Than wine's drained juice ; a music ravishing 5 More than the passionate pulse of Philomel ; — To be all this 'neath one soft bosom's swell That... | |
 | Frederick Erastus Pierce - 1929 - 572 sider
...that crowns the fell; To be an essence more environing Than wine's drained juice; a music ravishing s More than the passionate pulse of Philomel ; — To...That is the flower of life: — how strange a thing! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret ! Heaven's own screen 10 Hides her... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 sider
...spiritual, the constant turning of concrete natural objects into "an essence more environing /That wine's drained juice; a music ravishing /More than the passionate pulse of Philomel," end by reducing everything to a single note. It is true, as Watts-Dunton said, that Rossetti removed... | |
 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1991 - 264 sider
...their faces yearned: "I am your child: О parents, ye have come!" — *] 56 True Woman (1) Herself To be a sweetness more desired than Spring; A bodily...all this 'neath one soft bosom's swell That is the /lower of life: how strange a thing.' How strange a thing to be what man can know But as a sacred secret!... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2003 - 212 sider
...counterpart. Sheds doubled darkness up the labouring hill. SONNETS LVI, LVII, LVIII: True Woman I Herself To be a sweetness more desired than Spring; A bodily...That is the flower of life:— how strange a thing! How strange a thing to be what Man can know But as a sacred secret! Heaven's own screen Hides her soul's... | |
 | William Evan Fredeman - 2003 - 322 sider
...for the male observer woman is effectively not 'Herself.' Her body is not her body: it signifies a 'beauty more acceptable / Than the wild rose-tree's arch that crowns the fell.' This recognition of woman's separate strangeness borders on acknowledging that while her symbolic function... | |
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